ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations has allocated an additional $20 million for growing humanitarian needs in conflict-ridden Sudan. “As humanitarian needs soar in Sudan with critically low funding, I’ve approved an additional $20M from UNCERF [the UN emergency response fund],” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on soci...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Papua New Guinea will open its embassy in Jerusalem next week, according to the Israeli media. The embassy will be opened on September 5 during a visit by Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape to Israel, The Times of Israel newspaper reported. Papua New Guinea established diplomatic relations with Israel in [&hel...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP War and hunger threaten to “consume” all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, the UN has warned, decrying a dire lack of aid funding. After four months of a bloody power struggle between Sudan’s army and its former ally the paramilitary Ra...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – – AFP Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled the [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN’s humanitarian affairs chief said Tuesday that he is “deeply concerned” by renewed fighting in Sudan, warning that aid routes have been blocked as food runs out in the war-torn country. Martin Griffiths said fighting has become especially fierce in South Darfur and South Kordofan, urging the war...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim Afghan government on Tuesday denied a UN report that alleged the Kabul administration had killed and tortured people after its takeover on Aug. 15, 2021. The UN report detailed 800 cases of extrajudicial killing, arbitrary arrest, torture, and forced disappearance involving former Afghan government affiliates and se...
Niamey, Niger – AFP A convoy of around 300 supply trucks arrived in Niger’s capital Niamey on Monday as Burkina Faso came to the aid of its sanctions-hit neighbour. The West African bloc ECOWAS imposed sanctions on Niger after army officers toppled president Mohamed Bazoum in a coup last month. Benin and Nigeria closed their [&hell...
